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Child’s Play, by Sam Kriss

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Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking

[Letter from San Francisco] Child’s Play Adjust Share Tech’s new generation and the end of thinking by Sam Kriss , Illustration by Max Guther The first sign that something in San Francisco had gone very badly wrong was the signs. In New York, all the advertising on the streets and on the subway assumes that you, the person reading, are an ambiently depressed twenty-eight-year-old office worker whose main interests are listening to podcasts, ordering delivery, and voting for the Democrats. I thought I found that annoying, but in San Francisco they don’t bother advertising normal things at all.

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